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AKUOUETUM AND FKUTICETU M. 



PART II 



Pimts si/fres tris in France. Near Paris, at Verridres, 20 years planted, it is 82ft. high; and a 

 pyramidal variety, of the same age, Is IS ft. high. In Brittany, at Barres, 12 years planted, it is lift. 

 high. At Colombey, near Mete. 70 years planted, it is 99 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in. In 

 the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 40 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In the Park of Clervaux, near 

 Chit Meraut, S3 years planted, it is 69 ft. high. 



Piatts SjfMstris in other Countries. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden at Munich, 24 years planted, 

 it IS 24 ft. high. In Austria, near Vienna, at Hriick on the Leytha, 60 years planted, it is 90ft. 

 high. In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 51ft. high. In Russia, near St Petersburgh, 

 on the small island of Sosnovy Kosha, it is 77 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft, and of the head 

 16 ft. In Italy, at Monza, 65 years planted, it is 60 ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. In the London nurseries, one year's seedling plants 

 of the common variety are \s. Gd. a thousand ; two years' seedlings, 3s. Gd. 

 a thousand ; plants one year transplanted; 10a-. a thousand; and two years 

 transplanted, 20*. a thousand. At Bollwyller, single plants transplanted are 

 ."> cents each ; and at New York, 50 cents. Plants of the Highland red pine 

 are, in London, 1*. 9d. a thousand ; and at Grigor's Nursery, Forres, N. B., 

 Is. 6rf. a thousand; and of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 8 cents each. 

 Seeds of the common Scotch pine are, in London, 2s. per lb; of the High- 

 land pine, 2s. (id. per lb.; and seeds of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 

 are 1 franc 50 cents per lb. 



* i 2. P. (s.) pumi'lio Hcenke. The dwarf, or Mountain, Pine. 



Identification. Hanke Beob., 68. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 495. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t 2. ; Cam. Hort., 



127. ; Clus. Pan., 15. ; Hall. Helv., No. 1668. y ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 314. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 



1836; Bauin. Cat, ed. 1835. 

 Syiumymes. P. svlvestris montana y Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 366. ; P. s. humilis y Neal. Cat. 



Hort. Blackb., 50. : P. conls ercctis Tourn. Inst. 586., Schcuchx. It., 460., Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 126.; 



P. humilis, &c, Tourn. Inst., 586; P. sued<Hicus seu carpnticus Ungarisca Mag., 3ter bande, 38. ; 



Pinaster conis erectis Bauh. Pin., 492. ; P. tatarica Mill, in Herb. Banks. ; P. p. montanus Park., 



1537. f. 8. ; P. quartus austrlacus Clus. Hist., 1. p. 32. ; Pin nain, Fr. ; Krumholz, Ger 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 2. ; oury?£\ 2061., to our usual scale, and figs. 2057. and 2058., 



of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., See. Branches generally recumbent. Leaves short, stiff, some- 

 what twisted ; thickly distributed over the branches, with long, lacerated, 



woolly, white sheaths. Cones, 

 when young, erect ; when ma- 

 ||| ture, pointing outwards. Buds 



2058 



r 



2057 



(Jig. 2057.) ovate, blunt, resi- 

 nous. Leaves (Jig. 2058.) from 



2 in. to 2iin. long; sheaths, 



at first, from a in. to 1 f in. long, 



white and lacerated ; afterwards 



falling off or shrinking to f in. 



or i in. long, and becoming 



dark brown or black. Cones 

 (d) from I J in. to 2 in. long, and 

 from | in. to I in. broad ; reddish or 

 dark purplish brown when young, and 

 of a dull brown when mature. Scales 

 (h) and seeds (a) resembling those 

 of P. sylvestris, but smaller. Cotyledons 5 to 7. A large spreading 

 bush, or low tree; a native of Europe, on mountains. Introduced in 

 1779; flowering and ripening its cones at the same time as the Scotch 

 pine. Fig. 2063. in p. 2100. is a portrait of a bush at Dropmore, which, 

 in IS';'*, was 12 ft. high and 2!> ft. in diameter. 



Varieties. 



m T P. (s.)]>. 2 rubrceflbra has red flowers, but does not differ in any other 

 respect from P. (s.) pumilio. There is a bush of it at Dropmore 

 above \2 ft. hi<_'l), and covering a space 21 ft. in diameter. 



• \'.( .)/,. '.', Fischen Booth, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, LawsorCs Man., 

 p. 333. — Only small grafted plants of this variety are in the country, 

 It not having been introduced till about JH.Y2. In the shoots and 

 foliage, it bears SO strong a resemblance to P. (s.) pumilio, that we 

 doubt very much if it. even merits to be considered as a variety of 



